Friday, February 17, 2017

Parrainages de Le Pen, Fortune de Macron

As usual at this point in every electoral cycle, doubts are being expressed about Marine Le Pen's ability to collect 500 parrainages. I would be very surprised, however, if she fails to surmount this hurdle:

And far-right sites are raising doubts about Emmanuel Macron's wealth disclosure statements. This is what happens to front-runners. Is there anything here? Who knows? But uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

1 comment:

bert
said...

Far-right sites? You may have to explain the joke for us foreigners, Art.If it was Le Figaro rather than Le Monde you might have a point ... today they run a piece for a French audience by Theresa May.

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